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After intoduc- ing digital music to the masses via compact dss, and mak- ing many of us buy the music we had allover again the | coring industry decide to rest om ts coal laurels | ther tan invest in new muse of stop and thik about what aigtal musi 1 es ety tot bac and look a things in hindsight Homever the recoring industy shoul bave had sore Inkling that people would start to copy muse digally and reduce the profs to the industry ise — after al they did | pioneer digital music, so there must have been at east one ‘sionary that hada rasp ofthe technology's potential "Instead of looking to the fare, the industry decided to bury ts proverbial head i the snd and ignore the sutlon unt | it eoc out of hand. This similar othe move industry not [owing ané not doing mach about the transfering of | movies ve een told thatthe industry isnot dng any | thing Because its not hurting profits yet. ‘The music industry asa whole has bee unable todo any ‘hing abou the wade in digital misc is I tlive tha this Js because thas no concept of what todo, While twas able {0 shat down the fist symbol of music wansfering, Napster, Sehase't done mach about the Napster clones or other smi lar services. tis tying to push though unreasonable levies fon any ad every piee of digital media that might be cape | Ble of storing as ~ legitimate users be danined. The recording indsty has done litle besides punish everybody | forts own short sightedness _ | But slong comes a sliver of hope, Apple Computer has launched an online musi sevice that sel songs for USS.99. | Bist on it Tunes mi program this servic only ‘the cameras record the This is ples "| cra reviews include “shutter” lag times When looking ata digital camer, one fof the fist things Lat to now iif there isa lag between pushing the “utter” release and the emera ac iy taking the peur Al he high fesolion in the word von" help if cantnualy miss the Bhotograph 1 actully want Ae ll ‘most of us buy these cameras to shoot people, not landscapes, People's ‘xpresilons and movements Micke by || in miiseconds. Chile iter around, || silts move thee esd rm positions nal ange between the time one machine that to sl Photograph | want fAnd al relly want fakes the pctre Tv Team i. Jag ie important in about to spend $500 and up fora ‘may be wrong, but my only option right now if wane no lag tne fs 0 buy a dita SLR ~ $2,500 for the body pls $500 for storage media, ls $300 to $700 for a zoom lens Tel tht 8 only by making tis ‘camera makers will come to elit worth hee while to adress this prob- valble for Macintosh users, | Unt a Windows version 5 becomes available towards the fend ofthis year. What’ remark | ables that nthe fst week of | operation this sevice eld over | fe millon songs ~ mere than | Dal of them a fll albums. The ‘uns servic, which only salable to US-based credit cand Holders, les users stent #20: Second sample of the masie etre making the desson 12 buy the trick oF not. The suces of this service fs signticant because i shows that people ae willing to bay musi if given the chance and the ight format. 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CRT monitors would require practically a desk unto them- selves With this in min, Koren company, sts atthe bottom of the seeming Ty space-age monitor while & Ssh LED witha reslution 9f640x440 sits on top. “The monitors act independ tly ofeach ater, and setup [similar to any ater mul dlspay deskiop, using either r TV window, MP3 player or ary thing else imaginable running inthe top monitor while work ing in the bottom. ‘As with other multi-monitor setup, the upper ECD sereen aes an exten sion ofthe desktop and allows uses tove the eusor beween the upper and Tower seven The phantom Phantom ee Been about six months since Florida-based. star-up_ company Tesniom Labs ninco) Announced plans to enter the con= Sole video game fay. The announce- tment was met with ot of septs fiom media types (this media type Included), * “he company sid is console, called the Phantom, would be launched. in November of this year, which woul ‘mean the company proposed 1 hit the> has since pushed back is proposed roe auneh 0 2004, with m0 date specie, Infinium Labs i promising the mela first ook, Pala (wpsincon) recently unwell is Zire 71 PDA. with & striking new design, colour LOD screen, MPD player, and pethaps coolest of all ~ am ingrated Agta camera The PDA self adheres to Pal’ smaller-thancaverage size, making It ‘easy to slip ito packer, with the busi- spr of te spping up om 2 back to reveal a tiny 120 camera les. 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It's not waterproof by any ‘elatvely simple eff, but one that as the soluon to the unscheduled map gy to charge devies ean but ean deal ih snapping ple- equra a Tite reading before going checking stops, don't be foo hany. Aer In theca, the Batak connect tothe tures inthe rain Fn this case, the nad. The Pharos. map. software Finding ont that one of te roads our Stylus 300 to charge it onthe way. The base ofa wate where the water hit ogres that users Go a lite research explorer need to get tothe falls was lighter Socket is taken up to power the ting racks leaves a heavy mst inthe i [lore programming a route tean plot closed because of spring ooding, anew GPS receiver, which is stuck in the The Stylus 300 capture pictures where {oan addres, Intersection or general course had to. be plotted, detourng upper right hand side of the wind- _ourexporer wou have been very nery~ sea ikea small town ‘round the closed road. Aer loking at shield dangling wires across the interi- ous taking most other digital cameras, “The hitch: A few very small roads the map on-screen and deciding on or of the cr [At the end of the day. our explorer, arent inthe Pharus datsbase though another plan of attack, the PocketPC Carrying the BaPak and solar panels feeling much ls intrepid (after al, his ihe company says it wil be releasing attached to te GPS unit keeps chasts- adds considerable weight os backpack, was only an afternoon trp spews now Canadian maps soon. This doesnt ing our explorer forgoing off route” and i impractical for tre wilderness ly surprised by how well all the devices prove to be too Ug a problem in this Once an alemate route was discovered, hiking orcanotig where every gram of worked in conjunction with each oter. Fac, atthe software plots a course to It was simply a matter of driving off pack weight i scrutinized. 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